Topics: fantasy worldbuilding, characters, factions, relics, creatures, locations, canon.

Tags: undead, grain, sunfields, proof-audited.

Appearance: rusted mail packed with straw, wheat roots, mouse bones, and tax ribbons. Their helmets are empty except for a candle-glow where a witness seal should be.

Threat tier: common as a single barn guard, elite in a manor tithe yard, and regional if many villages were stripped during a succession levy.

Origin: they rise where soldiers, knights, or tax officers took grain without proper witness, leaving villages alive but legally unable to prove theft before winter.

Behavior: they patrol barns, granaries, toll wagons, and manor roads. They attack thieves, but their definition of thief may include hungry villagers reclaiming their own grain without the right seal.